Frontispiece of the first part (Day one). The ambush. Illustrator: Emile Bayard. Illustration from 'Histoire d'un crime' ('The History of a Crime', written in 1852) and part of a set of engravings published in Victor Hugo's 'Oeuvres'. Book published in French by Eugène Hugues in 1879.

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